Mental Healthcare

During its general monitoring visits to prisons, the Prison Visiting Project scrutinizes the treatment of inmates with mental illness and investigates in-prison mental health programs operated by Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH).

Mental Health in the House of Corrections

Special Housing Units and Mental Illness

Current Activities

Expert testimony

  • December 5, 2011 before the Assembly Standing Committee on Corrections and the Assembly Standing Committe on Mental Health
  • March 17, 2009 before the Senate Standing Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections, Senate Standing Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, and Senate Standing Committee on Health